Aarau railway station

Aarau railway station (German: Bahnhof Aarau) serves the municipality of Aarau, capital town of the canton of Aargau, Switzerland. Opened in 1856, it is owned and operated by Swiss Federal Railways (SBB CFF FFS).

Aarau
The station building in 2014
Location	Bahnhofstrasse 72 Aarau Switzerland
Coordinates	47°23′28.860″N 8°3′4.504″E
Elevation	384 metres (1,260 ft)
Owned by	Swiss Federal Railways
Line(s)	Heitersberg line Olten–Aarau line Baden–Aarau line
Platforms	4
Tracks	6
Train operators	Swiss Federal Railways
Connections	BBA Bus Aarau and PostAuto bus
Other information
Fare zone	A-Welle: 510
Website	Bahnhof Aarau
History
Opened	9 June 1856
Passengers
2018	44,800 per working day[1]
Rank	17 of 1735
Services
Preceding station Swiss Federal Railways Following station Olten towards Geneva Airport InterCity IC 5 Zürich Hauptbahnhof Terminus Olten towards Bern InterRegio IR 16 Brugg AG towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Sissach towards Basel SBB InterRegio IR 37 Lenzburg towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Olten Terminus RegioExpress Wildegg towards Wettingen Terminus Lenzburg towards Zürich Hauptbahnhof Preceding station Zürich S-Bahn Following station Terminus S11 Lenzburg towards Seuzach or Wila Preceding station Aargau S-Bahn Following station Binzenhof towards Schöftland S14 transfer at Aarau WSB Aarau Torfeld towards Menziken Schönenwerd towards Langenthal S23 Rupperswil towards Baden Schönenwerd towards Olten S26 Lenzburg towards Rotkreuz Olten towards Sursee S29 Rupperswil towards Turgi
Location
Aarau Location within Switzerland Aarau Aarau (Canton of Aargau)

The station forms the junction between the Olten–Aarau railway, the Zurich-Aarau railway and the Baden–Aarau railway. Previously, it was also a terminus of the now closed Aarau–Suhr railway.

On the southern side of the station yard is the separate railway station Aarau WSB for the metre gauge trains of the Wynental- und Suhrentalbahn (WSB). Its infrastructure (its own station building, 2 platforms serving three tracks, no. 11–13) is directly connected with Aarau railway station.

Location

Aarau railway station is situated in the Bahnhofstrasse, at the south eastern edge of the old town.

Rail traffic

Long-distance

The following long-distance services call at Aarau:[2]

• Intercity: hourly service between Geneva Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
• InterRegio:
  • hourly service between Bern and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
  • hourly service between Basel SBB and Zürich Hauptbahnhof.
• RegioExpress:
  • hourly service between Olten and Wettingen.
  • hourly service to Zürich Hauptbahnhof.

Aargau S-Bahn

The station is the focal point of the Aargau S-Bahn network, and is served by the following lines of that network:

• S23: hourly service between Langenthal and Baden.
• S26: hourly service to Rotkreuz.
• S29: hourly service to Sursee and half-hourly service to Turgi.

Zürich S-Bahn

There is also a Zürich S-Bahn line that originates and terminates at Aargau:

• S11 (Aarau – Lenzburg –) Dietikon – Zürich HB – Zürich Stettbach – Winterthur – Seuzach / Sennhof-Kyburg (– Wila)
  Operates non stop between Stettbach and Winterthur; the lines to Seuzach and Sennhof-Kybourg are operated alternately at hourly intervals; supplementary trains to Wila.

Notes

1. "Passagierfrequenz (2018)". Berne, Switzerland: SBB CFF FFS. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 2019-12-02 – via data.sbb.ch – SBB DATA PORTAL.
2. "Abfahrt: Bahnhof Aarau" (PDF). Swiss Federal Railways (in German). 15 December 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2020.

References

• Stutz, Werner (1983). Bahnhöfe der Schweiz: Von den Anfangen bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg [The Railway Stations of Switzerland: from the beginning to World War I] (in German) (revised ed.). Zürich: Orell Füssli. pp. 112 and 142. ISBN 3-280-01405-0.

External links

• Media related to Aarau railway station at Wikimedia Commons
• Aarau railway station – SBB
• Interactive station plan (Aarau)